I'm a Korean American, a father of four, and a lifelong outsider. I got bullied as a kid for being one of the few minorities in a quiet Boston suburb, and I spent the next few decades trying to get inside — every room, every world I could find.

I got pretty good at it. I built a couple of startups, recorded music that reached millions, and generated investment returns for institutions like Goldman Sachs. Each time I learned the language and earned a seat; each time, once the thrill wore off, the same quiet feeling came back. Something was missing.

When my father died, my world fell apart, and I went looking for answers. I found them in an unlikely place: a branch of science called complexity theory, whose measure of the human heartbeat now runs, in simplified form, on over half a billion devices globally. It gave me one idea I haven't been able to put down — that health, at every scale, is really about connection: across body, belonging, and beyond.

What struck me was that it named something I'd been watching for years. I’ve found that entrepreneurs who build the most durable value are obsessed with connection within their bodies, between their people, and to a purpose big enough to withstand getting punched in the face. Tending to that connection across these three dimensions had quietly become my work on a board — part coach, part therapist, part chaplain — and the framework finally gave it a name. What looked like separate parts of the job were one idea.

That idea is the spine of a book I’m writing, and the current investment thesis here at Amasia.

I'm a graduate of the Jerome Fisher Dual Degree Program in Management and Technology at the University of Pennsylvania, where I earned a BAS from Penn Engineering and a BS from Wharton. I'm currently enrolled in a Master's in Applied Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins. A Kauffman Fellow and a member of the Young Presidents' Organization, I sit on various corporate and non-profit boards, and am an award-winning public speaker whose media appearances include the BBC, CNBC, and CNN.

I've failed at plenty, but the most visible was probably my several attempts at growing dreadlocks.